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I have been on a total fruit and granola kick lately. I’m grabbing it by the handfuls, tossing it on yogurt and even just pouring milk over it and digging in with a spoon! And with summer right around the corner, I thought – why not put it all in a popsicle mold and pour in some a2 Milk® over top! And here you have fruit and granola breakfast popsicles. This post is the fourth in a series I’ve partnered with a2 Milk®. If you’d like to check out the first three, please go back and check out these dark chocolate chip coconut muffins (gluten free!), this super bright tropical green smoothie, or this robust and delicious roasted broccoli soup. All of them – so incredibly good! These popsicles are sooo incredibly easy – simply throw some fruit into a breakfast mold, pour in a little milk (sweetened with honey if you please) and top with granola. Let freeze – and for even more crunch, roll in a little more granola and put back in the freezer. You are all set to have the most delicious breakfast that will fool your mind into thinking you are having dessert! Plus A2 Milk has so many great benefits-

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These will be great to have in the summer months and are low in calorie and only sweetened with natural sugars. So go ahead – make yourself a million of these and stock of your freezer, because I promise, these will go fast! If you’d like to learn more about a2 Milk® you can check out their website by clicking on their name. You can also keep up with them on their Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. They’ve also been so kind to share a coupon with my readers: a2 Milk® $1 Off Coupon. For information on where you can find their product, click here: Product Locator.

This post brought to you by The a2 Milk Company™. The content and opinions expressed below are that of A Happy Food Dance.

I’m so excited to share this tropical green smoothie bowl with you guys today! Nothing can get you out of a mid-winter slump more than a bright and vibrant, tropical splash of a breakfast and bowl is all of that plus more!

What do you do when strawberries are on sale and you buy way too many because you think some how, some way, you’ll eat FOUR pints of them?! Well, stuff them in a flaky pie crust and top it with ice cream and call it a strawberry slab pie!

I’m definitely trying to up my pie game. My mom was always known as the pie maker in my house. She couldn’t make a cookie to save her life and her cakes always resembled the Grand Canyon in the middle, but she could make one hell of a pie and a damn good flakey crust too. She had the craziest method, and because she doesn’t live close, I haven’t had the chance to have her re-create it.

Well hello my always reliable, but not always welcome friend, Monday. Even though I had a little bit longer weekend, it still went too fast. We’ve started summer Fridays at my real world job (the one I do when I’m not making a mess in the kitchen and weirding my neighbors out by standing on the table taking pictures of food).

Friday was a little bit of a bust because I went out with co-workers Thursday and had TWO martinis and Friday I felt like I had 456 martinis! Getting older + vodka do not mix… at all.

I know I’ve told you strawberries are my favorite fruit, I even told you an elaborate story of how I almost choked to death on the most delicious, juicy strawberry. I’ve incorporated them in so many recipes, so it was only a matter of time before I would stick them into donuts. These donuts – Strawberry Buttermilk Donuts with Strawberry Glaze!

A couple weeks back I was approached to work on a roundup of “pink” recipes for Breast Cancer Awareness month and what better to pink up a recipe than naturally with juicy strawberries.

These donuts are super light and airy, made with buttermilk and sweetened with honey and sugar. So delicious – but my favorite part are the huge chunks of fresh strawberries….

If not, you should totally start. It’s super easy and the end result is delicious! Don’t like vodka, infuse your spirit of choice.

I first learned to infuse vodka while bartending and was shocked at how easy it was.

We would throw strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, a sliced orange and a sliced lemon in a big pitcher and empty out a bottle of vodka over top. And that’s it! Let it sit overnight and you have beautifully infused, tripe berry vodka.

Simply strain out the fruit and you’re left with a bright pink vodka. Before I made this, I thought they had added food coloring to get such a vibrant hue. But no, it’s just from the fresh fruit.

This knocks store bought berry flavored vodka out of the park. Those are too sweet to my liking and always taste artificial (because they are). Now you can make it at home, with whatever flavor and which ever spirit you like.

I like to keep the fruit and add it to the cocktails I make with it, because, well… that fruit is full of VODKA! Super potent stuff, don’t think you’re going to just sit around and snack on it. Unless you don’t have anything planned for the day (or the next).

I simply mix it with lemonade to make the most beautiful, flavorful summertime drink.

Don’t you just love when two amazing desserts come together and create one mega awesome dessert?!?

Growing up getting a banana split was a rare and special occasion. We didn’t live close to any ice cream places and it was Colorado, where it snowed most of the year, so there wasn’t a huge demand for them.

But on the chance that I did, it was HEAVEN! The chocolate-strawberry-vanilla goodness, topped with sprinkles, nuts and whipped cream. And finished with a maraschino cherry – bliss!

And then there’s cupcakes, those little bites of cake and frosting with a million different possibilities. Well, you’ve guess it, I’ve married the two into delicious banana split cupcakes.

I start with a super moist banana cupcake and top it with a “scoop” of chocolate, vanilla and strawberry frosting. Add some sprinkles and a maraschino cherry, and you have yourself a cake size bite of a banana split.

Biting into one, and you are instantly reminded of the ice cream parlor favorite. Flavors of banana instantly jump out at you, and depending where you start you get the frosting reminder of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice cream.

These would be perfect for a birthday party or summer bash. Even creating a “make-your-own” sundae bar with nuts, sprinkles, whipped cream and cherries all on the side so everyone can make their sweet dessert how they wish.

Top with your choice of toppings and garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Notes

You may need to add more milk or confectioners' sugar to reach the desired consistency for the frosting. You want to make sure it's thick enough that it will hold its shape once piped into ice cream scoops.

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